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Cultural Hermeneutics
Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno...
Growing Up Transnational
Identity and Kinship in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the interconnectivity,...
Marginal Subjects
Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman—and her counterpart, the feminized man...
The Form of Cities in Central Canada
Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Do Canadian cities have a distinctive form? How has this form evolved over time; and what has been the impact of growth, transportation changes and differing lifestyles on the contemporary Canadian urban environment? The research summarized in the present volume is directed at these kinds of questions....
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics
Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser’s cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research...
Food Matters
Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”
Through an inventive and original...
Survival Songs
Conchita Piquer's 'Coplas' and Franco's Regime of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
How can a song help the hungry and persecuted to survive? Stephanie Sieburth’s Survival Songs explores how a genre of Spanish popular music, the copla, as sung by legendary performer Conchita Piquer, helped Republican sympathizers to survive the Franco regime’s dehumanizing treatment following...
Anna Maria Ortese
Celestial Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
After years of obscurity, Anna Maria Ortese (1914–1998) is emerging as one of the most important Italian authors of the twentieth-century, taking her place alongside such luminaries as Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, and Elsa Morante. Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies features a selection of essays...
My Havana
The Musical City of Carlos Varela
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
For more than thirty years, musician Carlos Varela has been a guide to the heart, soul, and sound of Havana. One of the best known singer-songwriters to emerge out of the Cuban nueva trova movement, Varela has toured in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. In North America, Varela...
by Robert A. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the...
American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle
Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form – the little magazine – and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Though the little magazine has long been regarded as...
Bel Canto
A History of Vocal Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2003
In this well documented and highly readable book, James Stark provides a history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to the present. Using a nineteenth-century treatise by Manuel Garcia as his point of...
Wooden Os
Shakespeare’s Theatres and England’s Trees
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Wooden Os is a study of the presence of trees and wood in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries – in plays set within forests, in character dialogue, and in props and theatre constructions. Vin Nardizzi connects these themes to the dependence, and surprising ecological impact, of London’s...
Arduous Tasks
Primo Levi, Translation and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
One of twentieth-century Italy's greatest thinkers, Primo Levi (1919-1987) started reflecting on the Holocaust almost immediately after his return home from the year he survived in Auschwitz. Levi's powerful Holocaust testimonials reveal his preoccupation with processes of translation, in the form...